Ojo Taiye is a Nigerian eco-activist and writer who uses poetry as a tool to hide his frustration with society. His practice is collaborative and often draws from personal experience or interpretation of climate change, homelessness, migration, as well as a breadth of transversal issues ranging from racism, black identity and mental health. His current project explores neocolonialism, institutionalized violence and ecological trauma in the oil-rich, polluted Niger delta. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Mycelia, The Spectacle, Salamander, Consequence, Stinging Fly, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, Banshee, Willow Springs, Lambda Literary, Fiddlehead, Puritan, Frontier Poetry, Notre Dame Review, or Strange Horizon.
Taiye worked on the Future(s) 2021 with Catalyst Arts and Belfast Photo Festival; 2021 Sustrans Black History Month Art Project, 2021-22 Scene Stirling COP26 Climate Commission and switch art project 2022.
Website:https://linktr.ee/ojo_poems
Previous Works:
http://farefwd.com/index.php/2022/02/01/hankering/
https://therumpus.net/2020/08/rumpus-original-poetry-two-poems-by-ojo-taiye/
https://nativeskinonline.com/poetry-february-2022/garden-of-memory
https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/poetry/poem-the-growing-constellation-of-uncertainty